Action Alert - Just Say No to § 702 of FISA Act

9/11 TAPAction Alert

We’re calling on all Americans to raise their voices and call on Congress to allow Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to expire as scheduled on December 31st, 2017. Our civil liberties are at stake and all legislators are duty bound to uphold their oath to protect the Constitution.

Everyone has two state senators and one member of the House of Representatives. Use these links to identify your elected officials with their contact information. When you call, mention that you’re a constituent and want to convey your position on an upcoming vote.

In additional to filling out the Electronic Frontier Foundation form, by clicking the image above, make phone calls to your Senators' and Representative's Washington offices and send postal letters to their local offices.

You can find their contact information by clicking on the links below:

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In addition to phone calls, sending postal letters to legislators is an effective way to submit your concerns. Send them to their local state office rather than Washington, D.C.; these letters are read by the office staff, so make sure you send them. Next ...

in order to make your letters as effective as possible, as well as effectively conveying your concerns when making phone calls, commit the talking point below to memory.

Talking points for your Senators:

Point #1

I urge you to vote against S. 1297, A bill to make title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 permanent. This bill is unconstitutional. It allows for warrantless spying on all Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Instead, co-sponsor and vote for S. 1997, the U.S.A. Rights Act submitted by Ron Wyden and Rand Paul.

Point #2

The NSA had the capability to prevent the 9/11 attacks as well as many attacks since, according to whistle-blowers such as William Binney, who was a 30-year veteran of the Agency. ​Instead, the NSA’s actions have done the opposite and undermined national security. It’s time that everyone in Congress knows the truth. The NSA’s national security policy is set up to fail. It’s time to hold the NSA leadership accountable and to modify its current surveillance program. The NSA must implement the protections which were incorporated into the program called THINTHREAD which preserve our civil liberties.

Point #3

Members of Congress and others in the political process are also vulnerable to abuses from the Surveillance State. It happened to Rep. Jane Harman in 2009 when she sought leniency for two pro-Israel lobbyists under investigation for espionage.

Point #4

Aside from what William Binney and his colleagues reported, it’s time to end the cover up and deal with more incriminating facts. With reports on the Able Danger data mining program, reports by FBI whistleblowers like Coleen Rowley and others, with FBI assets tracking the San Diego cell of accused hijackers as reported in the 28 pages, there is no way the NSA didn’t know attacks were imminent. It appears nothing was going to stop what the Project For A New American Century referred to as a “new Pearl Harbor” to pursue “full spectrum dominance”. Now I urge you to demand the Senate Intelligence Committee holds the NSA leadership and any other sources accountable. My vote will depend on it.

Point #5

Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan may covertly insert a rider into the year-end spending bill which will contain language to legalize warrant-less spying. If this is the case, you must demand that the rider be removed.

Talking points for your member of the House of Representatives:

Point #1

I urge you to vote against H.R. 4478, the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017. This resolution allows for warrantless spying on all Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Instead, co-sponsor and vote for H.R 4124, the U.S.A. Rights Act submitted by Zoe Lofgren.

Point #2

The NSA had the capability to prevent the 9/11 attacks as well as many attacks since, according to whistle-blowers such as William Binney, who was a 30-year veteran of the Agency. ​Instead, the NSA’s actions have done the opposite and undermined national security. It’s time that everyone in Congress knows the truth. The NSA’s national security policy is set up to fail. It’s time to hold the NSA leadership accountable and to modify its current surveillance program. The NSA must implement the protections which were incorporated into the program called THINTHREAD which preserve our civil liberties.

Point #3

Members of Congress and others in the political process are also vulnerable to abuses from the Surveillance State. It happened to Rep. Jane Harman in 2009 when she sought leniency for two pro-Israel lobbyists under investigation for espionage.

Point #4

Aside from what William Binney and his colleagues reported, it’s time to end the cover up and deal with more incriminating facts. With reports on the Able Danger data mining program, reports by FBI whistleblowers like Coleen Rowley and others, with FBI assets tracking the San Diego cell of accused hijackers as reported in the 28 pages, there is no way the NSA didn’t know attacks were imminent. It appears nothing was going to stop what the Project For A New American Century referred to as a “new Pearl Harbor” to pursue “full spectrum dominance”. Now I urge you to demand the House Intelligence Committee holds the NSA leadership and any other sources accountable. My vote will depend on it.

Point #5

Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan may covertly insert a rider into the year-end spending bill which will contain language to legalize warrant-less spying. If this is the case, you must demand that the rider be removed.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to inform you Senators and Representative about the issues we are all facing.

Help us help you achieve a new independent, comprehensive Congressional investigation.

The 9/11 Truth Action Project (9/11 TAP) is a new organization that grew out of the aspirations for grassroots action expressed by several previous 9/11 Truth groups. 9/11 TAP’s mission is to build and mobilize a global grassroots movement to create a groundswell of civic support that achieves transparency and accountability for the crimes of 9/11, justice for its victims, an end to unwarranted wars, and restoration of our civil liberties.

The goal of this new movement is to achieve an independent, comprehensive Congressional investigation, by mobilizing and coordinating the efforts of volunteers across the U.S. and abroad, through local Truth Action Groups coordinated at the state, regional, national and international levels.

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9/11 Truth Action Project

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 11:05 pm

In the 16 years since the attacks of 9/11, we have made little progress towards an honest, public accounting of the events of that day. In the context of public opinion polls showing that tens of millions of Americans dispute the official story, this is beyond disappointing. What will it take to convert this latent power into a political force to be reckoned with?
It has been about 18 months since the AE911Truth local action teams were spun out to form the 9/11 Truth Action Project (911TAP). In this time, the number of teams growing the 9/11 Truth movement through street-level recruitment has increased from 1 to 15. The number of people signing the 911TAP petition is on target to reach 3000 in our first full year, a rate of growth that already exceeds the standard set by AE911Truth.
This rate of accomplishment has been achieved by a lot of hard work by the unpaid volunteers of 911TAP, and has benefited from solid support from the 9/11 Truth community on Facebook. However, if we are going to achieve our goal of an open, independent 9/11 investigation worth paying for, we will need to keep our foot on the accelerator.
In our first year of operation, 911TAP has faced numerous challenges common to volunteer-run, start-up organizations everywhere. This has caused delays in some programs that we had intended to have completed by now. Fortunately, prioritized problem solving is in the DNA of our organization. In the upcoming months, we look forward to demonstrating new capabilities that will greatly enhance the overall effectiveness of our education and recruitment efforts.
The 9/11 Truth movement is not yet ready to express strong political power through large public demonstrations. While we build toward this day, we demonstrate our power through the public display of petition counts on our websites. Driving these counts towards very high numbers is perhaps our best short-term approach for lifting the morale and confidence of 9/11 Truthers world-wide.
We need the 9/11 Truth movement to work harder at teaching 9/11 Truth to new people and recruiting them into our networks. We naturally focus our early work on people who self-identify as 9/11 Truthers. We need everyone who reads this to take a moment and sign the 911TAP petition if you haven't already done so. Sign up for the local action option where you live. Encourage others to sign. It will be the initial hard work by the few, leading to higher confidence by the many, leading to harder work by the many, that gives us a plausible shot at winning.
https://www.911tap.org/557-news-releases/706-911tap-petition-project-quarterly-progress-report-2017-q3

You start, rightly, with: "In the 16 years since the attacks of 9/11, we have made little progress towards an honest, public accounting of the events of that day."
But then ypu you display blatant dishonesty in public accounting of your own achievements, by writing this flat-out lie:
"The number of people signing the 911TAP petition is on target to reach 3000 in our first full year"
NO! 3000 is NOT your target! 3000 is not even 10% of your target! Plus, you are NOT even "on target" to reach 3000 - at the pace you have had for a while now, you may reach 2750 by year's end, perhaps a bit less.
Your target - you cannot have forgotten it!? - is 32,000 in the first year! Here, let me remind you:
https://www.911tap.org/557-news-releases/661-the-911tap-petition-project
This was posted on December 12, 2016, and you even linked to this article in your recent "911TAP Petition Project Quarterly Progress Report (2017 Q3)". I quote:
"The project has a four-year lifespan with a million-plus signer target by the end of year 2020. A number of enabling objectives need to be met to achieve this target, but none are more important right now than the First Wave objective of 32,000 signers in calendar year 2017. Nothing is more important to 911TAP right now than convincing you to help achieve 32,000."
Again:
"[no objectives] are more important right now than the First Wave objective of 32,000 signers in calendar year 2017."
32,000 was your most important priority.:
"Nothing is more important to 911TAP right now than convincing you to help achieve 32,000."
It is difficult to understand, seeing that 911TAP is failing their single most important target by a full order of magnitude, that you would have the chuzpe to write "the 911TAP petition is on target to reach 3000 in our first full year". This is misleading, dishonest, this is PR and NOT the truth!
Who is responsible for disseminating such dishonesty? Are you proud of yourself - that you sold your base this lie without getting called out?

Adam FitzsimmonsMonday, November 13, 2017 4:53 am

Your 9/11 Truth Movement is saturated with people that don't even know the basics of what happened on 9/11, and they also hold some of the single most bizarre scenarios imaginable which hurts your movement as a whole.

You wrote a mere 6 weeks ago:
"The number of people signing the 911TAP petition is on target to reach 3000 in our first full year"
I already showed that this is a dishonest misrepresentation of what the target really was for the first full year (32,000 instead of 3,000).
But even accepting, for the sake of argument, that 3,000 is your target, the claim that you were "on target to reach 3000 in our first full year" simply is FALSE!
When you posted the OP, on October 28, you had about 2,360 signatures displayed online, and your post on November 18 claimed: "On October 31, 2017 there were 2,462 signers". That was two months before the end of the year. In no month after March did you add more than 250 signatures, so even at your highest pace, you would have failed the 3,000 mark. But look where you are now: The online count today (Dec 13) is 2,660, that's +300 since Oct 28, or 6.5 per day. You have 18 days left. At that pace you'll not even reach 2,800 by New Year's Eve. Even if you have, say, an additional 100 uncounted paper signatures somewhere, you'll fail the 3,000.
And that was perfectly predictable in late October!
So why on earth did you say you were "on target to reach 3000"? That was two lies in one sentence! Is none of you concerned about - truth?
What you SHOULD be communicating to your followers is the truth: That you'll grossly fail at your most important intermediate objective, that this makes the long-term goal of 1 million in 4 years an utter illusion - that the TAP Petition Project HAS already failed. Sound project management would then either STOP the project, or make drastic changes - and not pretend that you are "on target" for anything. Dishonesty is the biggest enemy of project management.
You say that you want to generate large numbers to motivate and accelerate your movement.
But this has an obvious corrolary: The actual LOW numbers you generate will DEmotivate and DEcelerate your activists! It would be in your best interest not to pursue that path any longer and try something else!
It cannot have escaped your attention that you are, in fact, NOT generating a ground swell, that the rate at which you collect signatures is NOT growing as it must, drastically, if you want to ever get anywhere near your targest and reach even a tiny degree of relevance. That rate is practically steady: It has been the same in Oct, Nov, Dec what it was in March, April, May - and much less than what it was in Dec 2016, Jan and Feb!

9/11 Truth Action Project

Saturday, November 18, 2017 5:34 am

ANNOUNCEMENT: October Results for 911TAP Petition Project
The 911TAP Petition Project is a vehicle for lawfully and peacefully replacing the U.S. Congress with a Truth-friendly Congress, in order to fund an independent 9/11 investigation worth paying for. The short term objective is to unify the 9/11 Truth movement into collective action and get everyone working harder, and together, on concrete teaching & recruiting activities.
The intermediate goal is to achieve a petition count displayed on the 911TAP website that will boost the morale of the 9/11 Truth movement and give us greater confidence, and, again, motivate us to work even harder.
As the petition count gets very high it will improve our credibility in the eyes of the general public and demonstrate to the world, and ourselves, that the 9/11 Truth movement has become a political force to be reckoned with.
On October 31, 2017 there were 2,462 signers of the 911TAP petition. The October position breakdown is unchanged from the September report except for Colorado's return to the top-10 in the number 9 position. Oregon increased its lead and remains in the top spot, while New York keeps its position at number 2. The following list has the full top-10.
Oregon 978
New York 281
California 199
Washington 104
Arizona 100
Florida 68
Massachusetts 48
Texas 38
Colorado 36
Pennsylvania 35
We need your help! Join us by signing the 911TAP petition. Volunteer for "Local Action Teams" if you want to work with paper petitions in your area. You will get plenty of help to get started.
www.911TAP.org/petition/

Comments

Monia PezziSaturday, November 18, 2017 5:07 am

Your "Submit Petition" button isn't working.

9/11 Truth Action Project

Tuesday, November 07, 2017 1:53 pm

Today's policy of perpetual war, requiring perpetual surveillance of everyone under the cover of "eternal vigilance" is the means by which today's America has already been transformed into Orwell's dystopian vision, with cell phone and other electronic devices serving as the modern version of 1984's ubiquitous TV screens.

The purpose of the 911TAP petition is not to politely ask the U.S. Government to investigate itself.
Instead,
The overall purpose of the petition is to help achieve, lawfully and peacefully, an overhauled U.S. Congress to serve the interests of the American people. This is the Congress that will fund the new 9/11 investigation worth paying for.
In the short term, the purpose of the petition is to get the 9/11 Truth movement working harder to teach 9/11 Truth to new people and to recruit them into the movement.
In the intermediate term, a rising petition count displayed on our website will help to improve the morale and confidence of the 9/11 Truth movement, inspiring even more people to work harder.
Further out, a very high petition count will increase the credibility of the 9/11 Truth movement in the eyes of mainstream America, achieving a threshold of acceptance as longstanding holdouts look at our 9/11 evidence for the first time.
We are calling on all those who 9/11-aware now to sign the 911TAP petition now at the following link. Thank you from all of us at 911TAP.
https://www.911tap.org/join-us/sign-the-petition/

Comments

Dax PowellSaturday, October 21, 2017 12:52 pm

You'll never be seriously addressed by the mainstream, as they were complicit in intentionally misreporting as much as possible on the day (WTC7 20mins early, etc) - They have already lost so much face in the political arena these past few years that they couldn't ever discuss something that would so gravely undermine themselves.

Dave AdamSaturday, October 21, 2017 4:00 pm

The one truth I have found in all of this 9/11 activism :

Christina RodriguezSunday, October 22, 2017 10:10 am

Finally got it to submit. I've been trying all night.

Erik MaretteSunday, October 22, 2017 9:51 pm

You defined specific targets for the Petition last December: To reach 32,000 signatures by the end of this year, and 1 million by the end of 2020 (within four years).
You are currently at 2,339 Signatures, and adding under 200 signatures per month, so you will finish the year having achieved less than 10% of your target.
If you want to reach 1 million in the remaining 3 years, you have a goal of more than 900 signatures - every day! That's 150 times the current pace! Are you aware of this?
Is anybody at 911TAP drawing conclusions from those results? Is the 91TAP leadership even honestly aware that they are missing their most important goals this drastically? Have you calculated how fast the rate needs to grow from month to month to reach this target? Is that at all a plausible target?
If the goal is to impress the public with very large numbers, you must be careful to avoid that publicly generating very LOW numbers backfires: It documents how small, how insignificant the Movement is and runs the risk of demoralizing activists.

9/11 Truth Action Project

Friday, October 20, 2017 3:22 pm

A very important meeting is about to take place at Quaker Meeting House in New York at 7:00 N.Y. time tonight Oct 19. Everyone please visualize this meeting as being packed, standing room only. This is our chance at a criminal investigation. Time to rally our Peace Troops like never before. Committees to be formed to get the word out to support this landmark legal action. More to come....

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Jeanpaul BurgersFriday, October 20, 2017 3:22 pm

Kick ass

9/11 Truth Action Project

Saturday, October 07, 2017 10:12 pm

Rosangel was at the 9/11 Film Festival at Foley Square in NYC and had the pleasure of meeting people from 9/11 TAP as well as Richard Gage. She produces podcasts from Brooklyn, called Cafecito Break which she describes as "heart based critical thinking conversations." She interviewed Richard Gage before the event and wants to share her interview.
https://www.cafecitobreak.org/architects-and-engineers-for-911-truth-richard-gage-aia/